ShogunGamer Writes: Sony just revealed an OLED screen that's so astonishingly flexible it can be rolled tightly around a tube the size of a pencil. All of your sci-fi-inspired bendy screen next-gen computer dreams just came true.

After seeing this it certainly makes the old fake PSP 2 prototypes seem a lot less ridiculous.

it would be cool if we can get something affordable with this tech within this year or the next though. would really love to see if they implement this for PSP2 but if the price will be like $299, that'll be counter-productive. well, I can just hope

There aren't any products yet with this in it, or anything like it. Sure there are products with OLED type screens. The Zune HD uses an AMOLED screen, but it's nowhere near as thin as this. It's a stiff thick screen like an LED one, that cannot be bent or it will break. Same with the TV's your talking about.

What's being shown off here is a screen that is thinner than paper, and can be bent to extreme angles and still function. It's quite a good breakthrough.

This is Something I was saying in other article, Sony R&D got the World First Crystal-TRANSPARENT Display last year, it was an Article here in N4G, it can be this one, the thing is Sony put the money and come up with great Stuff by their Own, it's an Awesome Company for searching new ways to evolve and thinking ahead...

Yeah. Especially their QRIO robot, it was freaking amazing. Light years ahead of ASIMO, even today. Sadly they had to cut it's funding back when they we're trying to fix the bleeding of money they we're going through many years ago. :(

You shouldn't mind that these companies copy each other because even if Samsung steals the idea they have good enough engineers to make improvements on the tech and force Sony and others to innovate again.

One of the big reasons they are so thin is that they don't have a backlight. The organic pixels light up -- in other words, you can see it in broad daylight much, much better than a backlit screen, and the "contrast ratio" is way better than any plasma or LCD in existance.